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NEWS: Sword Art Online's English Dub Trailer Posted

Can someone PLEASE tell me why Christine "My Tiny Shrill Voice Has No Force, Punch Or Life To It Whatsoever" Cabanos gets so many important roles again?!?!

In other words, typical Aniplex dub: Skimp on the voice work, but overcharge on everything else.

Well, can't watch the video. Kinda want to hear the casting, just to see if it breaks the trend of mediocre casting in mediocre shonen shows. Whatever the case, there's a 99.99% chance that the Aniplex release won't be worth it, since they don't seem to know that only great shows are worth Aniplex's normal price points, and SAO is really too generic shonen for them, it more Funimation/Viz's area, IMO.

Anyways, waiting for a price for the DVDs/BDs, so I can either laugh at the absurd pricing or be incredibly shocked that AoA is releasing things at standard American prices (like that'll happen).

Took me thirty freakin' minutes for the damn thing to load, but I finally was able to watch it.

Consensus? It's "meh" at best. Bryce Papenbrook is as over-acting as ever, and the narrator sounds like he's bored. Cherami sounds decent, but there's so few lines in her from the trailer that it's impossible to judge.

From the single line that Klein uttered, he's either voiced by Kirk Thornton or Keith Silverstein, so either way he should be fun to listen to.

The rest of the actors they announced didn't have any lines, but considering they're all of Bang/Zoom's "new crowd", I don't have very high hopes. Can someone PLEASE tell me why Christine "My Tiny Shrill Voice Has No Force, Punch Or Life To It Whatsoever" Cabanos gets so many important roles again?!?!

In other words, typical Aniplex dub: Skimp on the voice work, but overcharge on everything else.

As a No. 1 fan of Christine Marie Cabanos I take offense on that post son.

Better lock yo doors, hide yo anime dvd's and call yo mammies because this m'fer is gunna bust yo nut and cap in yo ass.

BlackJaded wrote:

As a No. 1 fan of Christine Marie Cabanos I take offense on that post son. Better lock yo doors, hide yo anime dvd's and call yo mammies because this m'fer is gunna bust yo nut and cap in yo ass.

Hey, not my fault you're a fan of a bad actress.

Could be worse, though. You could be a Darrel Guilbeau fanboy.

In which case, I'd be the one hunting YOU down to put a cap in yo ass.

for a trailer, it sounded alright. there's never really much to go on with these things, so im going to wait until we actually see a few entire episodes before making a final decisive judgement. didn't Kirito's Japanese VA overact that dying in the game line as well?

Can someone PLEASE tell me why Christine "My Tiny Shrill Voice Has No Force, Punch Or Life To It Whatsoever" Cabanos gets so many important roles again?!?!

A piece of s*** like Sword Art Online gets the dub and LE treatment while actually good shows from last year like Kuroko's Basketball and Natsuiro Kiseki haven't so much as a license.

Sigh. I just really hope this doesn't make it to Adult Swim or something.

Oh, uh...dub sounds okay, I guess. Cherami Leigh as Asuna does come off as an odd choice.